' MEDFORIMgTRIBUNE
Second Section
Voter's Legislative Report
iThii It the leventh and latt
in a leriei of articles regard
ing legislative procedure and
organization taken from The
Oregon Voter.)
MINOH SUGGESTIONS
FOH TIME SAVING
Require early introduction and
printing of all the bills required
for the budget, with text in pro
posed final form. Under present
practice, the budget bills usual
ly are introduced during the fi
nal daj'S of the session. If full
text were available earlier, the
members of both houses and the
public would be better equipped
for their appearances before sub
committees of joint ways and
means committees. Lack of final
form before subcommittees oft
en has occasioned long delays as
a result of misunderstanding.
Require early introduction
and printing of all bills recom
mended by the administrative
offices of the state. Different
strategies are not resorted to by
different administrative agen
cies, according to their concept
of how committee members will
'react to their proposals. Some
committees for years have fol
lowed the practice of consider
ing administration bills before
introduction, so they may be in
troduced as committee bills after
ihe committee has come into
agreement as to substance and
text. The result is that the gen
eral membership of bo houses
and the public have no clear
idea of the content of such pro
Dosed legislation until late in
the session, when it may be in
troduced as committee bills with
all the prestige of committee ap
proval. Often it is difficrlt to up
set such committee actio 1, taken
after long deliberation n com
mittee, or to procure amend
ments of a text that in such man
ner has been carefully revised
and pre-determined. Late in a
session, members of both houses
are at an extreme disadvantage
due to lack of early knowledge'
of text, content and substance of
bills; the public also is at a dis
advantage; usually it is too late
to procure revision such as
could have been obtained if text
had been exposed early in the
session.
Another strategic approach of
bill sponsors, both of state of
ficers and of shrewd legislators,
is to hold up introduction of con
troversial proposals until -late
enough in the session to escape
the criticism that could arise
early in the session when there
was ample lime to voice objec
tions and to organize opposition
for appearances before commit
tees. It is almost a maxim among
shrewd legislative politicians
mat tne surest way to get a
questionable bill enacted in full
in the session, under the guise
of emergency, so it can be rushed
through committees and both
houses before the general mem
bership or the general public has
had opportunity to study it de
liberately. Only the keenest of
alert leadership is likely to dis
cern faults in legislation which
comes in late in the session,
sponsored by the executive
branch, or by an administrative
commission or a legislative com'
mittee, as an 'emergency re
quiring suspension of the rules
and the rushing through of its
enactment. While too rigid a
rule on time limit for bill in
troduction could prevent the
meeting of real emergencies by
a legislature, the general rules
should be in form to deter the
practice of late introduction and
printing except in what the most
capable leadership would recog
nize at once as emergencies so
genuine in nature that suspen
sion of the rules would be im
perative in the Dublic interest.
Another device is employed by
shrewd sponsors in anonymity.
Real identity of sDonsors could
be established by rules requiring
that each bill, when introduced.
set forth the identity of a spon
sor or sponsors, and their pri
vate relationship with the intro
ducing member, it any. Thus:
Introduced by Representative
uoo, at the request of:
John Jones, a client.
William Smith, engaged In the
5pme occupation, industry or
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r-"M.Uu a lne introducer.
Oregon Federation of Labor
of which and its affiliates the
introducer is not a member.
re?n State Grange, of
which the introducer is a mem
ber. Portland Chamber of Com
merce, of which the introducer
is a member.
Association of Tavern Own
ers, members of which are cli
ents of the introducer.
WCTU, of which the introdu
cer is not a member.
State department of educa
tion. State public welfare commis
sion. The governor of Oregon.
The secretary of state.
The labor commissioner.
Requirement that such identi
fication be made, plus the addi
tional requirement that no bill
may be considered bv a commit
tee Until it had hpnn inlrnrinnoH
and printed, for the information
of the legislature and the pub-
wouia relieve many situa
tions. Attorney members would
be relieved of emha
either by frank admission of re
lationship with a client interest
ed in a bill, or by clear denial
of relationship with members of
an association snonsorini! the
measure. Non-attorney members
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ON DISPLAY TOMORROW
Saturday, March 18th at
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and committee members, like
wise would be relieved of em
barrassment, either by open
revelation of interest or by cate
gorical denial of private rela
tionship. Each bill, so identified,
would have all the prestige to
which it was entitled by the
standing of its private sponsor.
A legislator introducing a bill
which was entirely his own idea
would be able to identify it as
such, free from misunderstand
ing as to possible private con
nections. Some members who try to cre
ate an impression of faithful in
dustry insist on seeping houses
in session on Saturdays. This is
a mistake, except near final ad
journment. Time should be af
forded members to visit their
homes week-ends, not only to
try to keep their private affairs
in shape, but to confer with con
stituents. In no week prior to
the closing weeks should an ad
journment be taken later than
after a short morning session on
Friday. The heavy duty days in
session arc Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and perhaps Thurs
day. They also are the principal
opportunities for committee
meetings and hearings. Commit
tee meetings called for Friday
arc poorly attended even when
many members feel obligated to
remain for a short Saturday
morning session. As it is. busi-
ness
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morning sessions often has to be
reviewed later in considerable
loss of time, due to absences of
members who apply to be ex
cused from Saturday attendance
so they may respond to urgent
demands to attend to affairs at
home on that day. A rule could
specify that unless otherwise
voted, a Friday morning ad
journment would be until Mon
day morning.
Pay for memoers and legisla
tive employees could' be dis
bursed under rules permitting
compensation for only five days
a week, or for six if sessions are
held on the sixth day. The pay
of employees should be higher
if this rule is adopted. The idea
of paying for non-session days,
including Sunday, is too discrim
inatory in favor of employees
who serve through all the earlier
part of the session, with little to
do, and then complain and de
mand overtime pay for hard
work later in the session, or, as
some do. quit for other employ
ment after having enjoyed an
easy time at 7-days-a-wcek pay
all through the easy part of the
session.
Difficulties of transacting leg
islative business, with due re
gard to the rights of minorities
among members, as well as the
rights of members of the public
to be heard, arc many indeed.
To a regrettable extent, legisla
tures and
legislators are dis-
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Pick 100,000 Violets
And Keep Grower Busy
Woburn, Mass. UJ.RI Picking
100.000 violet blooms on their
hands and knees is the annual
Valentine Day task of James
and Robert Shannon, operators
of New England's only violet
farm.
"But," they said, "the lovely
small makes up for the hard
work we put in each year to
make the nation's women happy
over their menfolk."
Portlapd, Ore., Mar. 17 (U.R)
Funeral services were held for
Mary Price Slater, 96, pioneer
Oregon resident and widow of
W. T. Slater, one-time state su
preme court justice.
credited, sometimes with cruel
injustice. Yet no civilization has
perfected a better method of
lawmaking for as great an area
as a state than to have a legisla
ture elected from its various dis
tricts with their varying social
and economic interests. Upon
the rules, practices and tradi
tions under which a legislature
transacts its business depends
much in its efficiency in fulfill
ing the great function of law
making, and also upon its attrac
tiveness as an outlet fqr the en
ergies of citizens who feel
enough interest in the affairs of
government to be willing to de
vote time to legislative service.
So long as our American civili
zation can produce men and
women who have understanding
of the need of good government
and willingness to exert them
selves to bring it about, they
should have every encourage
ment that rules and practices
can afford to induce them to
serve as members of our state
legislature.
PHONE 2-6115
.... AROUND
y VIRGINIA
United PreM
Hollywood, Mar. 17 (U.R)
Take it from the girls who have
to do it it isn't easy to turn on
the tears the
minute the di
re c t o r yells
"action."
Actresses had
It soft in the
old days. Prop
men just
squirted g 1 y
cerin in their
melting eyes
. . . or puffed
cigar smoke at
'em ...or
VlrftrtU rubbed a
MxcPhtrwa strong onion
on their lips.
But today they have to cry
real tears. And they do it with
psychology. They "think" tears.
Jeanne Crain said she does it
by remembering the things that
happened to her when she was
young. For "Pinky" she brooded
over nasty things people said to
her in her childhood. She cried
then, she said, and she still can
do it.
Maureen O'Hara thinks about
Ireland and her parents there.
That makes her so homesick she
brims right over. Claudette Col
bert remembers how much it
hurt the time she got hit by a
car. Anne Baxter clips a tragic
story out of a newspaper and re
reads it before she goes into cry
ing scene.
Demands Mood Music
Joan Crawford demands mood
music and, funeral pieces, and
Irene Dunne hypnotizes herself
into the weeps.
"I just tell myself: 'I'm going
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to cry, I'm going to cry,' " she i
said. "It takes about five min
utes, but I cry."
Linda Darnell wants her di
rector to talk to her about sad
things, and Gene Tierney post
pones all her sobbing scenes till
the end of the picture. By then,
she says, she is so worn out she
could cry over anything.
Betty Grable does it by re
membering the time she tore her
panties at the age of nine
and everybody laughed. Shirley
Temple thinks of a pet kitten
that died when she was a little
girl.
Mule Becomes 'Mulish'
Over Caff In Georgia
Rebecca. Ga., (U.R) Joe Lami
nack has just about broken his
mule of the notion that she is
the mother of a young calf.
Laminack said the mule took
over the calf soon after it was
born. Laminack had to pull the
mule away from the calf by
force.
Then he locked the cow and
calf in a barn. The mule pa
trolled the barn, peeping through
cracks and trying to coax out the
calf.
A mule is a cross between a
horse and a donkey. Mules rare
ly have offspring.
Washington, Mar. 17 (U.R)
The public housing administra
tion today allocated 200, low
rent public housing units to Lane
county. Ore., which requested a
$70,000 preliminary planning
loan.
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